[Discuss] Launch Shortcut as Sudo

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/12/2013 02:49 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 01:27 PM, Chris O'Connell wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I've created a nice little script on my BackTrack laptop.  I put an 
>> icon to
>> launch the script on the desktop, but I'm having two odd problems:
>> 1. when I double click the icon the script I'm asked if I want to 
>> "Run in
>> Terminal" or just run.  Either one I pick the script never appears on 
>> the
>> screen.
>> 2. Second, I need to ensure the script runs as the super user.
> I really should know how to do this after using Linux for so long, but 
> it's one of those things that's just proving frustrating.
> Generally scripts need to run in terminal.
> Sudo requires an active tty port. It has security measures so that it 
> can't run inside of a script.
> You have to comment out this in /etc/sudoers:
> Defaults    requiretty
>
You can also run the shell

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